Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'profession'
Hooked Through the Eye
I feel like a musky with all the fight gone out of him.»Jackson, Gordon. “Billy’s Girl.” Robert Shapard Ed. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. 1st ed. Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith, 1986: 180.« Last night I told one of...
The Demise of Naiveté
This time of year is always a mixed bag for me. I grew up in a largely Korean household which practiced no distinct holiday traditions. Christmas gift-giving was limited mainly to adults giving gifts to the children. The season...
Friction and Its Discontents
Those of you who know me in real life probably aren’t surprised by my blogging hiatus. Those of you who know probaby aren’t either. I suppose I’m the only one who’s surprised. In the last year (has it been that...
Writer
This morning, I finished reading "Those Who Write, Teach” by David Gessner, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, who discusses the effect of academic teaching (Creative Writing) on writers. In addition to being an excellent read,...
Patchwork Copyright
I am surprised by your unqualified use of the term “intelligent machines.” To apply the descriptor “intelligent” to machines assumes that intelligence can be measured across types (e.g. humans and computers) with no relationship to the specific embodiment of the...
What's that buzzing noise?
Overheard in a meeting somewhere:“The department would save quite a bit of money if instead of making copies we all used Blackboard.”“Did he just say ‘black boy’? ”“I don’t know about the rest of you but I use my black...
Have you seen my day?
I should call the police because I think someone has stolen my day. I did not misplace it nor did I leave it unlocked. At about a quarter to one when I went to sleep this morning, I had...
Ain't This The Life?
On 12 April, CNN's Money Magazine published a hoot of an article ranking “The Best Jobs in America” in terms of “stress level, flexibility in work environment and hours, creativity, and ease of entry and advancement in the field.”...
OU all over
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the profession I’ve found myself in, this whole literary critical/cultural studies schtick I’ve signed up for. It’s hard to believe that I knew I wanted to be a professor when I...
Doctored . . .
Yesterday, near to 10:40 am EST, the present members of my dissertation committee congratulated me for successfully defending my dissertation “Recombinant Media: The Mutation of Subjectivity in a Post-Print Culture.” A bit of administrative paper work must be completed...
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